What does it mean to be cute?

Selling Meng was originally an extension of the word "Meng" in ACGN, that is, "deliberately showing your own Meng", and later its meaning has been extended on the Internet. Under the commendatory part of speech, "selling cute" means deliberately being cute and impressing others. Under the derogatory part of speech, "selling cute" means deliberately putting on a show.

selling cute, simply interpreted as cute, is an animation term, and then the word "selling" is added to indicate behavior. It means that producers and characters try to please the audience by deliberately acting cute. Deliberately appear some lovely actions, words, etc.

In some cases, it is used to accuse the other party of deliberately showing their own cute points. Selling cute also means that cute people show themselves. Later, due to the commercialization of animation works and various party struggles in the budding war, it became the meaning of deliberately showing its own budding point.

Extended information:

With the widespread use of the word "selling cute", its meaning has also been extended. For example:

Typical sentence of selling cute in the forum: the landlord published a long article, and the netizens at the bottom usually used the reply of "Although I don't understand it very well, it seems to be very powerful" to show their simplicity, cuteness or satirize the landlord's article too profound or superficial.

In online language, the word "selling cute" is occasionally extended to the meaning of ignorance, showing the lower limit of IQ, etc., but this meaning is not widely used. Usually similar to the saying "pretend to be cute". But in the daily use process, "selling cute" is just an expression: "You are really cute, I can't stand it" and so on.